Teucer

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τεῦκρος (Teûkros).

(Greek mythology) The son of King Telamon and Hesione, who fought in the Trojan War and was renowned for his skill in archery.


Chaon

Andromache informs Aeneas that Helenus named the region Chaonia after the Trojan Chaon (334-5).

1997, Michael Paschalis, Virgil's Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), page 132:

(Greek mythology) A character in Virgil's Aeneid: a Trojan hero, a companion or perhaps brother of Helenus, and the eponym of Chaonia and the Chaonians.


Nut

Borrowed from Egyptian nwt (“Nut, sky”).

(Egyptian mythology) The goddess who serves as the personification of the sky.


Chironian

(Greek mythology, astronomy) Pertaining to Chiron.


Ino

(Greek mythology) A queen of Boeotia who, after her death and transfiguration, was worshipped as a goddess under the epithet Leucothea.


Epona

Ultimately from a suffixed form of Gaulish epos (“horse”), from Proto-Celtic *ekʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos.

(mythology) In Gallo-Roman religion, a goddess of fertility and protector of horses, ponies, donkeys, and mules.


Palatua

(Roman mythology) The tutelary goddess of the Palatine.


Vestal

(mythology) Alternative form of vestal (Pertaining to the goddess Vesta)


Pyrrha

(Greek mythology) The wife of Deucalion.


Creon

It has often been observed that Creon imputes corrupt motives (here and to Teiresias), because this was a level of motivation within his comprehension.

1980, R. P. Winnington-Ingram, Sophocles: An Interpretation, →ISBN, page 126:

Above all -- and this is of central importance in connection with the legal implications -- it is essential to understand that Creon must emerge as an appropriate counterweight to the obsessive energy of Antigone: that "Antigone's fate provides the foil for Creon and, in turn, Creon's fate becomes evident only against the background of Antigone's desitiny.

2003, Theodore Ziolkowski, The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises, →ISBN, page 152:

Perhaps more than any other figure in the Oedipus Trilogy, Creon, Oedipus' brother-in-law, seems to be a very different character in each of the plays.

2011, Regina Higgins, Charles Higgins, Cliffs Notes on Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy, →ISBN, page 81:

(Greek mythology) King of Thebes, noted primarily in the stories of Antigone and Oedipus.


Ogygia

/əʊˈdʒɪdʒiə/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὠγυγία (Ōgugía).

(Greek mythology) The island home of the nymph Calypso, where she entertained Odysseus for seven years.


Gello

From Ancient Greek Γελλώ (Gellṓ), perhaps from Akkadian; see Γελλώ (Gellṓ) for more.

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(Greek mythology) A female demon or revenant who threatens the reproductive cycle by causing infertility, spontaneous abortion, and infant mortality.


Thyestes

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Θυέστης (Thuéstēs).

(Greek mythology) A king of Olympia; the son of Pelops and Hippodamia; and father of Pelopia and Aegisthus. He and his brother Atreus were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother Chrysippus.


Valgrind

From Old Norse Valgrind, from valr (“dead warrior”) + grind (“gate”).

(Norse mythology) The main entrance to Valhalla in Norse mythology.


Byblis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βυβλίς (Bublís).

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Miletus who fell in love with Caunus, her twin brother.


Ladon

(Greek mythology) A serpent-like dragon that twined around the tree in the Garden of the Hesperides and guarded the golden apples.


Thalestris

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Θάληστρις (Thálēstris).

Victory must now have fallen to the side of the travellers (for the bravest troops must yield to numbers) had not Susan the chambermaid come luckily to support her mistress. This Susan was as two-handed a wench (according to the phrase) as any in the country, and would, I believe, have beat the famed Thalestris herself, or any of her subject Amazons; for her form was robust and man-like, and every way made for such encounters.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

(Greek mythology) The queen of the Amazons, said to have brought 300 women to Alexander the Great, hoping to breed a race of children as strong and intelligent as he.


Tian

The pinyin romanization of Mandarin 天 (Tiān).

...‘Heaven’ as we use it throughout the book is only a convenient but inaccurate translation of the Chinese character tian. Heaven in Chinese religions as well as in the Confucian tradition has multidimensional implications... In its metaphysical and physical connotation, Heaven... refers to... Nature. Applied in the spiritual realm, it signifies an anthropomorphic Lord or a Supreme Being who presides in Heaven, and rules over or governs directly the spiritual and material worlds.

2000, Yao Xinzhong, An Introduction to Confucianism, page 142:

Supreme being in Chinese philosophy and religion. He rules over lesser gods, humankind, and controls the cosmos. The word Tian may also refer to Heaven. As a god, Tian is often seen as an impersonal power...

2003, Constance Victoria Briggs, The Encyclopedia of God, s.v. "Tian"::

It was not just the sky, but a god with wills and intentions, seen as sovereign of all... In fact, "Tian" was another reverent term to address the supreme god: "Heaven, for the help of the inferior people, made for them rulers, and made for them instructors" ("Great Declaration I" in the Book of History)...

2018, Zhuo Xinping, Religious Faith of the Chinese, page 58:

(Chinese mythology) Synonym of Heaven: simultaneously conceived as the Heavens, Nature, and an anthropomorphic supreme God.


Patroclus

From Latin Patroclus, from Ancient Greek Πάτροκλος (Pátroklos).

(Greek mythology) A character in the Iliad, known for his close relationship to Achilles.


Victory

en-proper noun

Victory (countable and uncountable, plural Victorys or Victories)

All along the Champs Elysées were […] statues of plaster representing nymphs, triumphs, victories, and other female personages painted in oil so as to represent marble; real marble could have had no better effect, and the appearance of the whole was lively and picturesque in the extreme.

1841, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “Mr. Titmarsh to Miss Smith on the Second Funeral of Napoleon. Letter III. The Funeral Ceremony.”, in The Second Funeral of Napoleon: […] And The Chronicle of the Drum. […], London: Hugh Cunningham, […], →OCLC, page 63:

The two reverse groupings which originate on sestertii of Hadrian (BMCCRE III, pl. 79, 7), continue through the coinage of Caracalla, and show Victory floating or standing to the left or right with a standard or trophy held crosswise and extended in the hands are nothing more than the translations of similarly arranged Victoriae from the spandrels of triumphal arches to coin reverses.

1953, Gnomon: Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft, pages 475–476:

Behind Roma seated with Victoriola on the exten ded^([sic]) hand a full-sized Victory approaches from the right with crown and palm.

1974, The Goddess Roma in the Art of the Roman Empire, page 44:

We know from Dio that, when the Curia Iulia, begun by Caesar in 44 B.C., was finally dedicated in 29 B.C., Octavian set up a statue of Victory beside the altar of Victoria which he also dedicated there (51, 22, 2).[…]The type, which inspired innumerable copies, appears on coins by 31 B.C., if not earlier, and shows such a Victory holding in the right hand a wreath and in the left a palm branch, occasionally other attributes. Four years later, when Augustus received the clupeus virtutis, this was placed near the statue of Victory in the Curia Iulia.[…]The fact that there are two Victories at Lugdunum raises a different question, however.

1993, Duncan Fishwick, “The Twin Victories”, in The Imperial Cult in the Latin West, 2nd edition, volume I,1, E.J. Brill, →ISBN, book I, chapter “Roma et Augustus”, subchapter “The Altar of the Three Gauls”, pages 111–112:

(uncountable, Roman mythology) Synonym of Victoria (“the Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike”); also (countable), an artistic depiction of her, chiefly as a winged woman.


Shu

Borrowed from Egyptian šw (“Shu”, literally “Emptiness”), a derivative of the verb šwj (“to be empty, devoid of”).

bor

(Egyptian mythology) A god personifying the air and atmosphere.


Wayland

From Old English Wēland, related to Old Norse Vǫlundr, Old High German Wiolant (German Wieland). Cf. English wile.

(mythology) A legendary blacksmith in Germanic mythology.


Tien

(Chinese mythology) Alternative form of Tian: Heaven, simultaneously conceived as the Heavens, Nature, and an anthropomorphic supreme God.


Carmean

(mythology) Of or relating to the consort of Zeus Carme in Greek mythology.


Senectus

(Roman mythology) A son of Nox and the spirit of old age. He is the Roman equivalent of Geras.


Tmolus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τμῶλος (Tmôlos).

(Greek mythology) A king of Lydia and husband to Omphale.

The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.

a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169:

(mythology) A mountain, Mount Tmolus, the modern Bozdağ.


shikigami

(Japanese mythology) A kind of ghost or spirit in Japanese folklore.


skymaiden

(mythology) A young woman who comes from the sky.


Atum

Borrowed from Coptic ⲁⲧⲟⲩⲙ (atoum, “Atum”), from Egyptian tm (“Atum”).

(Egyptian mythology) The creator god of Heliopolis, the original source of all matter, associated with the evening sun.


Geb

Borrowed from Egyptian gbb (“Geb, earth”).

(Egyptian mythology) The god who serves as the personification of the earth.


Mirkwood

From Old Norse Myrkviðr (“murky wood; dark wood; black forest”), as anglicised by William Morris and later adopted by J. R. R. Tolkien. Direct derivatives of the name occur as place names in Sweden and Norway.

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(mythology) Any of several European forests in Germanic mythology.


Hippodamia

/ˌhɪpɒdəˈmaɪə/

From Ancient Greek Ἱπποδάμεια (Hippodámeia).

Restored to life, Pelops competes for Hippodamia against her father Oenomaus, who dies cursing Pelops' family.

2007, Marianthe Colakis, Mary Joan Masello, Classical Mythology & More: A Reader Workbook, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, →ISBN, page 207:

(Greek mythology) Various female Ancient Greek mythological figures, especially the queen of Pisa as the wife of Pelops.


Chryseis

(Greek mythology) A character in the Iliad.


Briseis

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Βρισηΐς (Brisēḯs, “daughter of Briseus/Brises”).

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So Akhilleus calls an assembly — any oddness in his doing so at this juncture is mitigated by Thetis' instructions (34–6) — and much of the Book is occupied with the speeches of reconciliation and the handing over of Briseis and Agamemnon's gifts.

1991, Mark W. Edwards, The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume V, books 17–20, Cambridge University Press, published 1995, page 234:

1993 [Random House (Knopf)], Tim Parks (translator), Roberto Calasso, The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony, 1994, Random House (Vintage), page 90,
And the Iliad was founded on a play of words, the substitution of a couple of letters in a name. Briseis, Chryseis. The bone of contention that triggers the poem is Briseis kallipárēos, Briseis “of the lovely cheeks”: Agamemnon wants her exchanged with, or substituted for, Chryseis kallipárēos, Chryseis “of the lovely cheeks." In Greek only two letters separate the two girls.

The character of Briseis and the story of her relationship with Achilles stand in the background of the entire Iliad: the poem opens, literally, with Achilles' anger, which at 1.298–9 turns out to be caused by Briseis’ abduction on Agamemnon's order, and ends shortly after Achilles sleeps with her once again in his tent (24.675-6).

2012, Marco Fantuzzi, Achilles in Love: Intertextual Studies, Oxford University Press, page 99:

(Greek mythology) A legendary figure who features in the Iliad; a princess granted as concubine to Achilles after the sacking of her city, Lyrnessus, before the beginning of the story.


Bifrost

Yet Asgard is always prey to attacks, so Bifrost is guarded by Heimdall, the most astounding of sentries.

2001, Raymond L. Lee, Alistair B. Fraser, The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth, and Science, →ISBN, page 33:

The Younger Edda tells us that Asgard is an island surrounded by ocean that lies west of Europe and which is accessed by means of the rainbow bridge, Bifrost. Hence Asgard, like Atlantis, represents the North American ice sheet. Like Atlantis, Asgard has outlying colonies that lie "along the outer strand of that sea." The Bifrost bridge most likely signifies the ice sheet bridge that spanned Baffin Bay and the North Sea to connect the North American and Greenland ice sheets with the European ice sheet.

2005, Paul A. LaViolette, Earth Under Fire: Humanity's Survival of the Ice Age, →ISBN, page 250:

The only member of the Æsir not permitted to cross on Bifrost was Thor, the son of Odin and Jordr. Everyone feared Bifrost would bend and break under the weight of the mighty thundergod.

2010, Heilan Yvette Grimes, The Norse Myths, →ISBN, page 16:

In W. Petrie's book "The Story of the Aurora Borealis” (1963) it reads the following: “One can produce arguments that suggest Bifrost was the aurora."

2012, A. Brekke, A. Egeland, The Northern Light: From Mythology to Space Research, →ISBN, page 18:

(Norse mythology) The rainbow bridge that connects Asgard with Midgard.


Ennead

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐννεάς (Enneás), itself a calque of Egyptian psḏt (“nine, nineness, ennead”), from psḏw (“nine”).

calque

(Egyptian mythology) The collection of nine gods worshipped at Heliopolis and taking part in the Heliopolitan creation myth, together representing the sum of all the elements of the created world: Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Nut, Geb, Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys.


Tefnut

Borrowed from Egyptian tfnwt, tfnt (“Tefnut”).

(Egyptian mythology) A goddess of the Heliopolitan Ennead, commonly taken to be a personification of moisture


glawackus

(New England, mythology) A mythical monster resembling a mixture of a bear, panther, and lion, and having a fearsome screech.


werewoman

(mythology) A woman who takes the form of an animal through a process of lycanthropy.


Arimaspi

(mythology) A legendary tribe of one-eyed people of northern Scythia, described by Herodotus.


pixiu

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貔貅 (píxiū).

(Chinese mythology) A mythical Chinese creature resembling a winged lion, supposed to bring wealth.


Aristaean

en-adj

Aristaean (comparative more Aristaean, superlative most Aristaean)

more Aristaean (comparative)
most Aristaean (superlative)

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Aristaeus.


Venti

1858, John Brougham, Neptune’s Defeat, New York: Sameuel French, Act I, Scene 3, p. 15,
Boreas, old buster, go unlock the cave
of Æolus, and let the Venti rave.

(Roman mythology) The four Roman gods of the winds (Aquilo, Favonius, Auster, and Eurus, who were each ascribed a cardinal direction from which their respective winds came), considered collectively.


Red Jews

(mythology) A legendary Jewish nation mentioned in vernacular sources from medieval Germany. They were said to be an epochal threat to Christendom, who would invade Europe during the tribulations leading to the end of the world.


diwata

Borrowed from Cebuano diwata, from Proto-Visayan *diwata, from Malay dewata, from Sanskrit देवता (devatā, “god, deity”).

(mythology, folklore) In Filipino folklore, a spirit, usually a lesser god or goddess, believed to guard natural features such as forests.


Sobek

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(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian deity associated with the crocodile.


Xiangliu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 相柳 (Xiāngliǔ).

(Chinese mythology) A hydra-like monster which terrorized the world in prehistory.


Xiangyao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 相繇 (Xiāngyáo).

(Chinese mythology) Synonym of Xiangliu, a monster.


Kanghui

(Chinese mythology) Personal name of Gonggong, a monster.


Gonggong

/ˈɡɔŋ(ˈ)ɡɔŋ/

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Gonggong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 共工 (Gònggōng) (or 龔工／龚工 (Gōnggōng)), the name of the mythological figure.

(Chinese mythology) A water god or monster who terrorized prehistoric China


Meleager

From Ancient Greek Μελέαγρος (Meléagros).

(Ancient Greek mythology) A hero venerated in his temenos at Calydon in Aetolia, famed as the host of the Calydonian boar hunt, and mentioned as one of the Argonauts.


Kumari Kandam

From Tamil குமரிக்கண்டம் (kumarikkaṇṭam).

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குமரிக்கண்டம்

(mythology) A mythical lost continent in the Indian Ocean, home to an ancient Tamil civilisation.


Utgard

Learned borrowing from Old Norse Útgarðar (“Outer Holds”). Compare to Norwegian Nynorsk utgard (“outer yard, forest space”)

cog

(Norse mythology) The abode of the giant Utgard-Loki, on the other side of the great sea that surrounds Midgard.


goblette

"I am Gwendolyn Goblin, soon to be chief on Goblin Mountain. Now get out of the way before I move you out."
"Ho, ho, ho. It is to laugh. You can't move me out, you skirted goblette. You must pay"
..
"So you're stuck, goblette," Hugh Mongous said. "Pay."
"This is outrageous!" Gwenndy said, stamping her little foot.
..
“Cups, glasses, containers, bottles, mugs—”
“Goblets?”
"Whatever."
“Nothing interesting,” Gwenny said, hoping the demoness would go away. There was no point in correcting her about the distinction between a goblet and a goblette, or in reminding her that there was only one goblin in this party. They had enough problems without having them complicated by a supernatural creature. Demonesses were supposed to be less worse than demons, being mischievous rather than mean, but their mischief could be formidable.

1992 "The Color of Her Panties" book 15 in Piers Anthony's Xanth series page 29

A girl Goblin. Happy Halloween to all you Goblins and Goblettes!

My dear, dear goblette, there is really nothing to it.

2015 "Goblin" The Adventures of Puss in Boots (Puss speaking to Cleevil)

I decided a "Goblette" was a shortstacked android goblin girl.


hircocervus

From Latin hircus (“goat”) + cervus (“stag”).

A legendary creature described as being a stag and goat hybrid, the hircocervus (“he-goat stag”) is said to have appeared in medieval bestiaries but there are no specific legends about them.

2016, Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, page 158:

(mythology) A mythical creature, half goat, half stag.


Momus

From Ancient Greek Μῶμος (Mômos), whose name is related to μομφή (momphḗ, “blame, reproach”).

The extraordinary section of the poem that here follows is based on the mythological story of Momus, expanded by the fancy of the modern poet. The story ran that Momus, "the jester", was hurled off Olympus by the other gods, who could not endure his satirical criticism. When Zeus gave the "fatal kick" that sent Momus off Olympus, it was fatal not so much to Momus as to the mountain of the gods, although apparently Olympus still aspired to heaven, while Momus went limping, crippled by his fall. But the gods, lacking the criticism of his Comic Spirit, rapidly degenerated, and soon fell to earth.

1912 G. M. TREVELYAN (in notes to The Poetical Works of George Meredith)

(Greek mythology) The personification of satire and mockery.


piskie

The farmer slunk away unperceived, and went to bed, where he lay a long while awake, thinking in what way he could best shew his gratitude to the piskie for such an important Service.

1865, Popular Romances of the West of England:

The piskie was in the shape of a man — very dark, black-haired, and cross-eyed.

1906, J. Henry Harris, Cornish Saints & Sinners:

Glister was determined to prove the wizened piskie wrong, but its taunts were well founded.

(mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) Alternative form of pixie (supernatural being): A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.


Demetrian

en-adj

Demetrian (comparative more Demetrian, superlative most Demetrian)

more Demetrian (comparative)
most Demetrian (superlative)

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Demeter.


grundylow

(UK, folklore, mythology) Alternative form of grindylow


grindylow

Possibly connected to Grendel, the monster from the epic Beowulf.

(UK, folklore, mythology) A folkloric creature, said to inhabit water and to grab children with its long sinewy arms and drown them.


Twilight of the Gods

From German Götterdämmerung (“twilight of the gods”); by erroneously translating Old Norse ragnarǫk (“fate of the gods”), misconstrued as ragnarøkkr (“twilight of the gods”).


Mezentius

(Roman mythology) The king of Caere and ally of Turnus.


Gormflaith

The order of place names in the verses indicates that Olaf was Gormflaith's first husband.

2005, Benjamin T. Hudson, Viking Pirates and Christian Princes:

In any case, the intruder also knew that the High King never slept with his wife, the lady Gormflaith, these days. So now, unless the High King had invited someone else to his bed, he would be found alone.

2010, Peter Tremayne, Dancing with Demons:

Another daughter of Flann Sinna, Gormflaith, is presented to us in the literature as a genuine historic queen, a scheming queen, and a sovereignty goddess.

2013, Pauline Stafford, A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland c.500–c.1100:

(chiefly mythology) A female given name from Irish


Oenomaus

(Greek mythology) A king of Pisa, son of Ares and father of Hippodamia.


Bellerophon

From Ancient Greek Βελλεροφῶν, Βελλεροφόντης (Bellerophôn, Bellerophóntēs).

Βελλεροφῶν, Βελλεροφόντης

(Greek mythology) A mythical hero, best known for slaying the Chimera.


Actaeon

From Latin Actaeōn, from Ancient Greek Ἀκταίων (Aktaíōn).
In Greek mythology, Artemis transformed Actaeon into a stag with horns on his head. In European folklore, horns were considered the sign of a cuckold, whence the noun sense of Actaeon, "cuckold", and the verb sense "to cuckold", are derived. Compare horned, put horns on, etc.

Amid so much prosperity, it was one of his grandsons, Actaeon, who first brought distress to Cadmus, when antlers, foreign to his human shape, sprouted from the youth's forehead, and his hounds gorged themselves on their master's blood.

1979, Eric S. Rabkin, Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 62:

(Greek mythology) Grandson of Cadmus, transformed into a stag by Artemis in book III of Ovid's Metamorphoses.


Melusine

(mythology) A figure of European folklore and mythology (mostly Celtic), a female spirit of fresh water in a sacred spring or river, usually depicted as a serpent or fish from the waist down, and sometimes with wings.


Melusina

(mythology) Alternative form of Melusine


Laius

From Latin Lāius, from Ancient Greek Λᾱ́ῐ̈ος (Lā́ïos).

(Greek mythology) The father of Oedipus and husband of Jocasta


Phrixus

(Greek mythology) Son of Athamas and brother of Helle, with whom he fled to Colchis on a golden winged ram.


Nessus

(Greek mythology) A centaur killed by Heracles, whose tainted blood in turn killed Heracles.


Otrera

From Latin Otrēra, from Ancient Greek Ὀτρήρη (Otrḗrē).

(Greek mythology) the creator and first Queen of the Amazons


Mengidabrutkoel

(mythology) A spider demigod in Palauan mythology who introduced natural childbirth.


orcess

My gaze fell on an orcess. It was the first time I'd seen a woman from the race of the Firstborn. She looked a lot like Miralissa, except that her hair wasn't gathered into a braid, but a long tail. The orcess was armed with two crooked swords

Kalatea was an orc-more precisely an orcish madien. Hmm...Or is it orcess? I don't know what the proper term for her was, but the main gist was evident-she was large and green.

2018, The Phantom Castle: The Way of the Shaman: Book #4 LitRPG series, page 64:

"And this is my vassal Mahk the Orcess," I gestured towards my imposing pet. She simply grunted. Orcs hated social formalities.

2018, The Shadow of the Rogue: The Rogue's Gambit, page 69:


Atreus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀτρεύς (Atreús).

(Greek mythology) A mythological king of Mycenae and son of Pelops and Hippodamia.


Gorlois

The name first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136).

(mythology) The husband of Igraine prior to Uther Pendragon, in Arthurian legend.


Priapos

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Priapus


Yushan

(Chinese mythology) Jade Mountain, a mythological mountain and residence of The Queen Mother of the West


Até

(Greek mythology) A goddess of mischief, delusion, ruin, and folly, the daughter either of Zeus or of Eris.


Macris

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Aristaeus and Autonoe.


swan maiden

(mythology) A woman able to shapeshift between human and swan forms.


Claíomh Solais

From Irish Claíomh Solais (literally “Sword of Light”).

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(Irish mythology) The "Sword of Light", one of the Four Treasures of the Tuatha Dé Danann which belonged to Núadu.


pishtaco

From a Quechua language term meaning "cut the throat of, cut up".

They are often told that the pishtaco is going to carry them off if they do not behave. Thus, they are taught to fear the mestizo and white man at an early age. The pishtaco also maintains conformity among adults. Individualism is not a norm ...

However, the pishtaco is not an Andean Minotaur. It is, rather, an indigenous Andean folk symbol of Spanish, and later criollo, colonialist oppression. Pishtacos are represented as white foreigners, ...

1997, Milos Kokotovic, Confronting Postmodernism:

For this part of the operation, the pishtaco is said to import specialized equipment from the United States, Germany, or Japan.

2005, Don Kulick, Anne Meneley, Fat, →ISBN:

This explains why the first pishtaco figures in the legend were priests and soldiers. As the power structure changed, so did the pishtaco figure. In later versions of the story he rode a horse and wore leather chaps like a rancher, ...

2008, Jennifer McLagan, Fat, →ISBN, page 217:

(mythology, folklore) A mythical white male demon in South American folklore, who steals and eats the bodyfat of indigenous South Americans, or cuts up their flesh to convert it into food.


Eleutheria

From Ancient Greek Ἐλευθερία (Eleuthería).

(Greek mythology) A personification of liberty, represented on certain ancient coins, and sometimes denoting the goddess Artemis.


Valetudo

(Roman mythology) Roman goddess of health and hygiene (equivalent to the Greek Hygieia), great-granddaughter of Jupiter.


All-Father

From all + father. The sense used to refer to Odin was a calque of Old Norse Alfǫðr.

(Germanic paganism, Norse mythology) Odin.


Pangu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 盤古／盘古 (Pángǔ).

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盤古／盘古 (Pángǔ)

(Chinese mythology) The first living being and creator of all in Chinese mythology.


Lob Lie-by-the-fire

(mythology) A hairy man in English folklore, similar to the brownie, said to perform housework in return for a saucer of milk and a place beside the fire.


amphisbaenic

en-adj

amphisbaenic (comparative more amphisbaenic, superlative most amphisbaenic)

more amphisbaenic (comparative)
most amphisbaenic (superlative)


Tlazolteotl

(mythology) An Aztec goddess of vice, filth etc. and of steam baths and purification.


Comus

(Greek mythology) The god of festivity, revels and nocturnal dalliances, a son of Dionysus.


Ismene

Ismene and the Guard are the opposite of Antigone and Creon, yet for a full understanding of the human condition they are equally important.

2012, André Lardinois, “5: Antigone”, in Kirk Ormand, editor, A Companion to Sophocles, Wiley-Blackwell, page 65:

(Greek mythology) A daughter and half-sister of Oedipus, daughter and granddaughter of Jocasta, and sister of Antigone, Eteocles and Polynices.

(Greek mythology) A daughter of the river-god Asopus by the nymph Metope.


wechuge

(mythology) a demonic cannibal spirit known in North America, which is said to commit murder due to craving humans.


Pelopid

(Greek mythology) Any of the descendants of Pelops.


Heraclidan

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to the Heraclids.


Heracleidae

(Greek mythology) The descendants of Heracles.


Hydaspes

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὑδάσπης (Hudáspēs), proposed to have been borrowed from Old Persian *Vidāspaʰ (literally “caring for horses”), from *vīd- (“to take care of”) + 𐎠𐎿𐎱 (a-s-p, “horse”) to explain the development -sp- instead of -st-, but this has no basis in any attested names for the river.

der

(Greek mythology) A god associated with the river.


Dellingr

Borrowed from Old Norse Dellingr, formally as if from Proto-Germanic *Dallingaz, perhaps "shining one", related to Old English deal (“proud, bright”) and possibly the second element of Old Norse Heimdallr and Mardǫll. Another proposed etymology is Proto-Germanic *Dagilingaz (“dayspring”), from *dagaz (“day”);

(Norse mythology) a figure in Norse mythology, the father of Dagr (the Day)


Heimdall

(Norse mythology) The Norse god who guards the rainbow bridge Bifrost, using his keen eyesight and hearing to watch for invaders and the onset of Ragnarok.


space herpes

Ice Pirates “A ‘Star Wars’ rip-off with S&M scenes, twelfth-rate jokes, and ‘space herpes’”

1985, “1984 entertainment: Movies to see and shun”, in Michiganensian, volume 89, page 60:

Oh! Did we mention that there are families aboard the Enterprise? Yeah, it turns out there are. Because Starfleet did this study and realized that Space Herpes - also known as Kirk's Syndrome - spreads considerably slower if its officers have their spouses and children onboard their ship.

2009 September 17, Wil Wheaton, quotee, “Wil Wheaton's ‘Memories of the Futurecast’ Engages us With Awesome”, in Wired:

“Space herpes got your tongue, boy?” The man came to a stop in front of him. ¶ For some reason the idea of a mutated venereal disease frightened him more than the idea this man could mug him or worse.

2010, P. I. Barrington, Gail Delaney, J. Morgan, Borealis I:

(science fiction, ufology, fandom slang, slang) A generic disease found in space, especially one transmissible by sexual encounters.

shingles

skin condition from reactivated VZV herpesvirus in later life


Achlys

(Greek mythology) An ancient Greek goddess of death-mist, misery and sadness.


Phanes

(Greek mythology) The primordial god of creation in the Orphic cosmogony.


Aion

From Ancient Greek Αἰών (Aiṓn, “Greek god or personification, Gnostic spirit”).

bor

(Greek mythology) A Hellenistic deity associated with time, the orb or circle encompassing the universe, and the zodiac.

Eon

Greek god associate with time, the universe and the zodiac


Ophion

(Greek mythology) A Titan-king of heaven, before being overthrown by Cronus and Rhea.


Oenone

Borrowed from Latin Oenōnē, from Ancient Greek Οἰνώνη (Oinṓnē).

They went to that fair villa by the sea; and pleasantly did many a morn pass in the large hall, on whose frescoed walls was painted the story of Œnone, she whom the Trojan prince left, only to return and die at her feet.

1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Forget Me Not 1833, Giulietta—A Tale of the Forteeenth Century:

(Greek mythology) The first wife of Paris of Troy.


Eurystheus

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Εὐρυσθεύς (Eurustheús).

"But why hasn't Iolaus killed Eurystheus?," she asks. In a witticism very much akin to Electra's "But where are the messengers?," Euripides has Alcmene ask, essentially, why the plot she is part of has just swerved from its expected course: Iolaus is supposed to kill Eurystheus, by tradition.

1991, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Scholars Press, page 129:

Already we have seen from Iliad 19 and the birth of Eurystheus that at an early stage of the tradition Herakles was destined to be subordinate to his cousin.

1993, Timothy Gantz, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Volume 2, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 381:

There is a different kind of religious reference at 989-90, where Eurystheus claims that it was Hera who had afflicted him with the enmity towards Heracles.

2003, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, Tragedy and Athenian Religion, Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), page 323:

(Greek mythology) A Mycenaean king of Tiryns (or, according to some authors, of Argos), in Argolis, who imposed the twelve labours on Heracles.


Phorcys

Sophocles calls them^([the sirens]) the daughters of Phorcys.

1836, Leigh Hunt, The Sirens and Mermaids of the Poets: The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Part 2, page 273:

But what of Phorcys as father of Persephone?
Phorcys too has a role in Orphic genealogy, already known to Plato: he belongs to the Titan generation, together with Kronos and Rhea (Tim. 40e = Orph. fr. 24 Bernabé / 16 Kern).

2010, Noel Robertson, Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities: The Sacred Laws of Selinus and Cyrene, Oxford University Press, page 126:

Now, Phorcys, it is known, was a variation of Orcus, the equivalent of Hades in the Uranid pantheon. Phorcys belonged to the Atlantean group of deities or monsters, who was reputed to carry off men to the Inner world and keep them imprisoned there, which was possibly a folklore memory of subterranean temples for magic rites.

2016, Comyns Beaumont, Britain: The Key to World History, Resonance BookWorks, page 287:

(Greek mythology) A primordial sea god, son of Pontus and Gaia, who by Ceto fathered numerous monsters including Echidna and the gorgons.

But the Phrygians are ſometimes mentioned as ſeparate from the Trojans: in the catalogue of the Trojan allies they are led from the distant Aſcania by Phorcys and Aſcanius, whose names are not derived from Greek, and we learn that ſome of the Phrygians spoke a different language.

1798, John Bacon Sawrey Morritt, A Vindication of Homer and of the Ancient Poets and Historians Who Have Recorded the Ancient Siege of Troy, page 52:

(Greek mythology) Phorcys of Phrygia, a Phrygian ally of the King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War.

Forci

Phrygian ally of Priam in the Trojan War


tree nymph

(Greek mythology) In Greek myth, a female tree spirit; a dryad.


therianthropy

/ˌθɛɹiˈænθɹəpi/

(mythology) Shapeshifting between human and animal forms.


Aramazd

Transliteration of Old Armenian Արամազդ (Aramazd). Doublet of Ahura Mazda.

translit

(Armenian mythology) The chief and creator god in pre-Christian Armenian mythology, thought to be a syncretic deity, a combination of an autochthonous figure and the Iranian Ahura Mazda.


Libertas

Unadapted borrowing from Latin Lībertās. Doublet of liberty

(Roman mythology) the Roman goddess and personification of liberty; equivalent to the Greek goddess Eleutheria.


Venusberg

(mythology) A subterranean temple of Venus, in Teutonic myth.


Jovial

/ˈd͡ʒəʊ.vɪ.əl/

I know the ſhape of's Legge: this is his Hand: / His Foote Mercuriall: his martiall Thigh / The brawnes of Hercules: but his Iouiall face— / Murther in heaven?

1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 390, column 1:

It was pointed out in chapter 3 that [C. S.] Lewis liked to regard Jupiter as his personal presiding deity, but Mercury would have been almost as apt a choice, for Lewis had been extraordinarily favoured by that Intelligence whom, in ‘The Planets,’ he calls the ‘Lord of language’: both as a speaker and as a writer Lewis was uncommonly fluent. However, despite these talents, despite the fact that he saw Mercurial as well as Jovial strains in his paternity, and despite his opinion that Mercury shared with Jupiter a special need of rehabilitation, Lewis claimed no special relationship with the planet of the second sphere. In fact, he confesses that the Mercurial essence is almost beyond his grasp: […]

2008, Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

(Roman mythology, obsolete) Pertaining to the Roman god Jove or Jupiter (the counterpart of the Greek god Zeus), the god of the sky and thunder and the king of the gods; Jovian.


Robin Goodfellow

(mythology) Puck (the mischievous sprite)


Hecatoncheires

/ˌhɛkətɒŋˈkaɪɹiːz/

From Ancient Greek ἑκᾰτόν (hekatón, “hundred”) + χείρ (kheír, “hand”), compare the adjective ἑκατόγχειρος (hekatónkheiros, “hundred-handed”). The putative *Ἑκατόγχειρες (*Hekatónkheires) is unattested in Hesiod's Theogony, which instead describes the giants with the phrase ἑκατὸν μὲν χεῖρες (hekatòn mèn kheîres).

lang

τῶν ἑκατὸν μὲν χεῖρες ἀπ’ ὤμων ἀίσσοντο, ἄπλαστοι, κεφαλαὶ δὲ ἑκάστῳ πεντήκοντα ἐξ ὤμων ἐπέφυκον ἐπὶ στιβαροῖσι μέλεσσιν· ἰσχὺς δ’ ἄπλητος κρατερὴ μεγάλῳ ἐπὶ εἴδει.

The three Hecatoncheires were named Cottus, Briareus (or Aegaeon) and Gyges (or Gyes).

1840, George Cornewall Lewis (translator), John William Donaldson (translator, later chapters), Karl Otfried Müller, History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates, Robert Baldwin, page 92,
[…] nor is it until the poet has related how Zeus set free these Hecatoncheires, by the advice of the Earth, that we are introduced to the battle with the Titans, which has already been some time going on.

But then Zeus went down to Tartarus and released the Cyclopes and the hundred-handed monsters. The Cyclopes awarded Zeus their weapons of thunder and lightning, and the Hecatoncheires pelted the Titans with boulders.

1973, James Weigel, James L. Roberts, Mythology, CliffsNotes, page 50:

1993, Tim Parks (translator), Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, [1988, R. Calasso, Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia], Random House (Vintage), page 202,
By this time many beings had spread out across space, both on high and below: the Titans, the Cyclopes, the Hecatoncheires.

(Greek mythology) Three monstrous giants of enormous size and strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms, who were offspring of Uranus by Gaia, whom Zeus freed from captivity and who in return aided the Olympians in the Titanomachy.


Centimanes

From Latin centimanus, a calque of Ancient Greek Ἑκατόγχειρες (Hekatónkheires, “the Hundred-Handed”) from centi- (“100”) + manus (“hand”).

der

Ἑκατόγχειρες

1882, The Chautauquan, Volume 3, Chautauqua Press, page 486,
The Titans with the Cyclops and Centimanes (hundred-handed), were giants and the first inhabitants of the earth. Strictly the hundred hands belong to the brothers of the Titans, the Centimanes.

Of the three Centimanes enumerated by Hesiod, Brisareus only is mentioned in Homer, and, to all appearance, not as the son of Uranos, but as the son of Poseidṑn; not as aiding Zeus in his combat with the Titans, but as rescuing him at a critical moment from a conspiracy formed against him by Hḕrḕ, Poseidṑn and Athḕnḕ.

1906, George Grote, A History of Greece, Volume 1, Dent, page 54:

1998, Robert Temple, The Sirius Mystery: New Scientific Evidence of Alien Contact 5,000 Years Ago, 2nd Edition, Random House (Arrow), page 325,
‘"From their shoulders sprang a hundred invincible arms and above these powerful limbs rose fifty heads attached to their backs." For this reason they were called the Hecatoncheires or Centimanes,’ as we are reliably told.

(Roman mythology) Synonym of Hecatoncheires.


Kisshōten

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese version of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi: goddess of happiness, charm and beauty, of fertility, nature, and of human creativity, and the patronesses of joy, amusement and festivities.


Wyrd

Learned borrowing from Old English Wyrd (“Fate”).

lbor

Both Wyrd (2574, 2526) and the Mighty Maker (979) measure out dooms, though God is said to control fate (1056).

1925, Caroline Harris Stevens, The Treatment of Death in Anglo-Saxon Poetry, page 18:

At last she spoke, “My name is Anawin. I am the valla. I am the keeper of secrets. I am the teller of truths. I speak for the Wyrd, the three goddesses of fate. I speak for past, for present, for future. What is it that you wish to know?”

2007, Holly Taylor, Crimson Fire: Book Two in the Dreamer's Cycle Series:

He recognises these women, and with dawning realization so do I. The Queen within, is the Wyrd, Goddess of chance, destiny and death.

2015, CJ Moseley, Chronoclysm: The Paradox War:

(mythology) An Old English deity, goddess of fate.


Logi

Learned borrowing from Old Norse Logi (“jötunn of fire”),
personification of logi (“flame, blaze”), from
From Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame”). Related to Middle High German lohe, more distantly to Latin lucere (“to shine, to light”), Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”). All ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.
Compare Old Norse Hálogi.

(Norse mythology) also known as Hálogi he is the jötunn (giant of Norse mythology) of fire; he is the personification of fire in Norse mythology.


Iambe

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰάμβη (Iámbē).

(Greek mythology) A Thracian woman, daughter of Pan and Echo, granddaughter of Hermes.


Okeanos

/əʊˈkeɪənɒs/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós). Doublet of Oceanus and ocean.

bor+

(Greek mythology) Synonym of Oceanus (“god and personification of the world ocean”)


sitiogonic

en-adj

sitiogonic (comparative more sitiogonic, superlative most sitiogonic)

more sitiogonic (comparative)
most sitiogonic (superlative)

From Greek σῖτος (sîtos, “food, grain”) + γόνος (gónos, “creation”).

2005, Robert Campany, The Meanings of Cuisines of Transcendence in Late Classical and Early Medieval China, Brill, Leiden, 2005:

[Bruce] Lincoln ... coins the term sitiogonic to mean 'explaining the origin of food'

1993, Anne Birrell, Chinese Mythology, Johns Hopkins, page 12:

(mythology) Concerned with the mythological motif of the origins of foods, food sources, or food-related aspects of human culture.


UFO nest

(ufology) A crop circle, regarded as a landing site for UFOs.


Epigoni

From Latin Epigonī, itself from Ancient Greek Ἐπίγονοι.

(Greek mythology) The legendary sons of the Argive heroes of the first Theban War, who as legend has it, were themselves prosecutors of the second Theban War.


ufonaut

(ufology) A pilot or passenger of a UFO.


Vejovis

From Latin Vējovis, a later spelling of Vēiovis, from Old Latin Vēdiovis, from vē + Diovis from Proto-Italic *djous, *djowes, from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws.

(Roman mythology) an ancient Italic Roman deity of Etruscan origin considered to be an underworld counterpart of Jupiter; literally “Little Jupiter”, “Anti-Jove”


NHI

(ufology, astrobiology) Initialism of non-human intelligence.


dullahan

From Irish dulachán, from dubh (“black”) + another word (compare lucharachán (“elf, dwarf”)), possibly originally a term for a dark or sullen person (compare the surname Dullahan) and only subsequently applied to the spirit.

The dullahans always came in a mist. But Devin wasn't afraid of dullahans. If he saw one, he would club it over the head. But then Devin remembered that dullahans didn't have heads. He grasped his stick a little tighter in his hand, […]

1990, Elona Malterre, The Last Wolf of Ireland, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 3:

“A dullahan,” both Phelan and Coriel whispered. Coriel looked her square in the eye, “You did remember the gold, right?” ML blushed, “No, I didn't. I was so scared I just started running.” “Then how did you escape?” “My pocket tore on a bush. […] “You're lucky you're not dead anyway. The dullahan could have stopped or spoken your name, or both.”

2008, Jessica Borchardt, A Fairy Yarn, →ISBN, page 53:

There is no way to bar the road against a dullahan. All locks and gates open on their own when it approaches. Dullahans do not appreciate being watched while on their errands, throwing a basin of blood on those who dare to do so […]

2014, Tony Locke, Mayo Folk Tales, The History Press, →ISBN:

But the values of a fairy manifested into physical form in this city—a dullahan.” Celty Sturluson was not a human being. Celty was a type of fairy known as a dullahan that appeared to those close to death, signaling their impending demise.

2015, Ryohgo Narita, Durarara, volume 1, Yen Press LLC, →ISBN:

Because she is a dullahan, her head is not connected to her body—it's held in place by her gear.

2017, Kugane Maruyama, Satoshi Oshio, Overlord, volume 4, Yen Press LLC, →ISBN:

(fantasy, Irish mythology) A black-clad (usually male) horserider in Irish folklore which carries its severed head like a lantern and may be repelled by gold; when it stops riding (or calls out someone's name), someone will die. (Also called the Gan Ceann, Irish for "[one] without a head".)


fenghuang

(Chinese mythology, Japanese mythology) A phoenix found in Asian mythologies, which reigns over all other birds, often of female sex and frequently found paired with the Chinese dragon.


Tennes

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Tenes


Tenes

(Greek mythology) The eponymous hero of the island of Tenedos.


Pandemic

From Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη Πάνδημος (Aphrodítē Pándēmos, “Aphrodite Pandemos”), from πάνδημος (pándēmos, “of or belonging to all the people, public”) + English -ic (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’). See further at pandemic (etymology 1).

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Ἀφροδίτη Πάνδημος

[page 64] The Love, therefore, which attends upon Venus Pandemos is, in truth, common to the vulgar, and presides over transient and fortuitous connexions, and is worshipped by the least excellent of mankind. The votaries of this deity seek the body rather than the soul, and the ignorant rather than the wise, disdaining all that is honourable and lovely, and considering how they shall best satisfy their sensual necessities. […] [page 67] That Pandemic lover who loves rather the body than the soul is worthless, nor can be constant and consistent, since he has placed his affections on that which has no stability.

a. 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Banquet. Translated from Plato.”, in Richard Herne Shepherd, editor, The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: From the Original Editions […] In Two Volumes, volume II, London: Chatto and Windus, […], published 1888, →OCLC, pages 64 and 67:

The same distinction between an Uranian and a Pandemic Venus runs, as all those who have any acquaintance with the sculptures of the Greeks know, through their whole art. […] The latter [the Capitoline Venus] is the true Pandemic Venus, the perfect type of voluptuousness, soulless, animal beauty,— […]

1840 January–June, “Shelley’s Translation of ‘The Banquet’ of Plato”, in The Monthly Chronicle; a National Journal of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume V, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, pages 316–317:

That was spoken of the celestial Aphrodite, whose symbol is the tortoise, the emblem of domestic modesty and chastity: not of that baser Pandemic one.

1852 January – 1853 April, Charles Kingsley, Jun., “She Stoops to Conquer”, in Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face. […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 109:

The meeting of Venus with Phoebe distinguishes her roles: the business of Venus in her pandemic form is to ensure the immortality of the kinds. Her Garden has the voluptuousness necessary to ensure this, and this is 'the first seminarie / Of all things that are borne to live and die / According to their kindes.' [Quoting from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.]

1967, Frank Kermode, “World Without End or Beginning”, in The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (The Mary Flexner Lectures on the Humanities; 1965), New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC; new edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2000, →ISBN, page 76:

For the complicated history of the Uranian and Pandemic Aphrodite of whom the Venus genetrix, the creative and vivifying force of nature, and Venus, the goddess of erotic passion, are Roman versions, see "Aphrodite" and "Venus" in Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities, […]. [Allen] Tate sees the attempt to reconcile the claims of the Uranian and Pandemic Aphrodite as the lifelong concern of [John] Keats.

1969, Gerhard Joseph, “From Fatal Goddess to a God of Love”, in Tennysonian Love: The Strange Diagonal, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →OCLC, footnote 8, page 141:

The Symposium [of Plato] presents strong and varied opinions on Aphrodite. Aristodemus reports Pausanias's speech on the Homeric and Hesiodic versions of the goddess's origins, and differentiates between the two loves and the two Aphrodites—the Pandemic one, daughter of Zeus, and the heavenly Uranic Aphrodite.

2015, Nora Clark, “Aphrodite and Venus: Myth Timeless and Temporal”, in Aphrodite and Venus in Myth and Mimesis, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 30:

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Of Aphrodite Pandemos, the earthly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the heavenly aspect known as Aphrodite Urania: earthly, physical, sensual.

Aphrodite Pandemos
Capitoline Museums
Capitoline Venus


Rona

(mythology) In Māori mythology, a legendary woman who cursed the moon.


Adlet

(cryptozoology, mythology) Alternative letter-case form of adlet (“half-human, half-dog cryptid”)


Cytherea

From Ancient Greek Κυθέρεια (Kuthéreia), via Latin Cytherea.

The gloved and jewelled bards who sing / Of Pippa, Maud, and Guinevere, / Have hardly done the 'handsome thing' / For you, my inky Cytherea.

1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24:

(Greek mythology) The goddess Aphrodite.


Charonic

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to the mythological Charon.


catasterize

en-verb

catasterize (third-person singular simple present catasterizes, present participle catasterizing, simple past and past participle catasterized)

catasterizes (present singular third-person)
catasterizing (participle present)
catasterized (participle past)
catasterized (past)

From Ancient Greek καταστερισμός (katasterismós, “star legend”), from καταστερίζω (katasterízō, “to place among the stars”), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”).

uder

καταστερισμός

Erigone, daughter of Icarius, was catasterized into the constellation Virgo.

(Greek mythology, transitive) To turn into a star, constellation, comet or other celestial object.


catasterismus

καταστερισμός

... the presence of Phaethon's catasterismus in the Metamorphoses.

(Greek mythology) The state of being transformed into a star, constellation, comet or other celestial object.


UAP

During World War II (and probably before), high flying pilots were reported to have observed unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP), often now called transient luminous events (TLE’s), particularly in the vicinity of thunderstorms.

2012 September 17, Don Lipman, “Red sprites, blue jets, and elves What are these mysterious, elusive phenomena?”, in The Washington Post:

“You know, there’s a new name,” Mrs. Clinton said in the March appearance. “It’s unexplained aerial phenomenon,” she said. “U.A.P. That’s the latest nomenclature.”

2016 May 10, Amy Chozick, “Hillary Clinton Gives U.F.O. Buffs Hope She Will Open the X-Files”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The founders say they believe “there is sufficient credible evidence of UAP [unidentified aerial phenomenon] that proves exotic technologies exist that could revolutionize the human experience.”

2017 December 16, Bryan Bender, “The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs”, in Politico Magazine, →ISSN:

This is an effort that I believe is rare and timely given current events, such as the apparent increase in UAP incidents through official military channels.

2019 October 23, M J Banias, “This Silicon Valley Startup Is Dedicated to Detecting UFOs Off the California Coast”, in Vice Magazine, →ISSN:

The spokesman at the time said UAP was preferred over UFO because of the stigma surrounding the latter term.

2020, Jordan Culver, Adrianna Rodriguez, “Pentagon declassifies 3 leaked US Navy UFO videos”, in USA Today:

Pentagon officially released three videos of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).

2020, “To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science Acknowledges the Pentagon's Official Release of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Video Footage”, in Baker City Herald:

The US military is worried some of the UAPs spotted by military pilots in the past may represent technologies of strategic rivals unknown to US scientists.

2023 January 12, “US government logs more than 500 UFO reports with hundreds unexplained”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

unidentified aerial phenomenon
unidentified aerial phenomenon#English

(ufology) Initialism of unidentified aerial phenomenon; synonym of UFO (“unidentified flying object”)


Ammit

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the Devourer of the Dead.

أمت

Egyptian funerary deity, the Devourer of the Dead


Anhur

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian war god


Anput

From Egyptian jnpwt as rendered in the outdated 19th-century transcription scheme developed by Karl Richard Lepsius (ȧnput).

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Anubis


Satis

(Egyptian mythology) A war, hunting, and fertility goddess


Apep

(Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Apophis


Jötunheimr

(Norse mythology) the realm of the Jötnar gods


Svartálfaheimr

(Norse mythology) the realm of the Svartálfar gods, also known as the Myrkálfar


Vanaheimr

(Norse mythology) the realm populated by the Vanir gods, one of the nine realms


Nidavellir

(Norse mythology) the realm of the dwarves, one of the nine realms


Bes

The god Bes occurred so early in the human imagination that it reaches back to the earliest of human settlements along the Nile.

2009, Molefi Kete Asante, Ama Mazama, editors, Encyclopedia of African Religion, SAGE, →ISBN, page 121:

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian god, the protector of households and mothers, children and childbirth.


Kunlun

Kunlun
Kunlun (mythology)#Name
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Zhengzhang Shangfang

From the Mandarin 崑崙／昆仑 (Kūnlún) and 崑崙山／昆仑山 (Kūnlún Shān), with the character 山 (shān) being an ambiguous reference to any raised place, inclusive of islands, hills, mountains, and mountain ranges. The characters 崑崙／昆仑 (Kūnlún) are phono-semantic compounds adding 山 (shān) as a semantic component (形旁 (xíngpáng)) to the characters 昆 (kūn) and 侖／仑 (lún), which were presumably also homophones for Kunlun in Old Chinese—Zhengzhang's reconstructed pronunciation being /*kuːn.run/—but leaving its further development or original meaning uncertain. See also the Name section of the Wikipedia entry on the mythological Kunlun.

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崑崙山／昆仑山 (Kūnlún Shān)

崑崙

Mythological Chinese mountain or mountain range

...the Yellow Riuer... is the other famous Riuer of that Kingdome, in greatneſſe and note, which ariſesth without the Kingdome to the Weſt, out of the Hill Cunlun, conjectured to bee the ſame whence Ganges ariſeth, or one neere to it.

1625, Samuel Purchas, Pvrchas His Pilgrimes, volume III, London, →OCLC, page 340:

(Chinese mythology) A mountain or mountain range somewhere west of the North China Plain believed to be the home of Xiwangmu and the Peaches of Immortality, as well as other gods and Taoist immortals, and previously believed to help support the dome of the sky.


Nefertem

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian god, who represented the first sunlight and the delightful smell of the Egyptian blue lotus flower


Deucalion

From Ancient Greek Δευκαλίων (Deukalíōn).

(Greek mythology) The son of Prometheus, husband of Pyrrha. Both survived a deluge sent by Zeus to punish the human race.


Raglan scale

(mythology) A series of twenty-two tropes common among fictional protagonists.


seal-man

I have heard of seal-men in Iceland and the Esquimo lands of the far north.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 117:

(mythology) A person who can transform into a seal (the animal) and back again.


Vanth

From Etruscan [script needed] (vanθ). The moon was named after the goddess in an online voting in 2009, the name Vanth was first suggested by American writer Sonya Taaffe.

(mythology) In Etruscan mythology, a chthonic goddess who guides the souls of the dead to the underworld, often shown in various forms of funerary art.


Phorcides

(Greek mythology) Synonym of Graeae (“mythological sisters”)


Graeae

From Ancient Greek Γραῖαι (Graîai), from γραῖα (graîa, “old woman”), perhaps from γραῦς (graûs).

(Greek mythology) Three sisters, old women with grey hair — Deino (or Dino), Enyo, and Pemphredo (or Pephredo) — who shared a single eye and a single tooth. They were daughters of the sea-deities Phorcys and Ceto.


Antaeus

(Greek mythology) The son of Poseidon and Gaea.


Coronis

(Greek mythology) Any of several figures from Greek mythology


Neith

(Egyptian mythology) The primeval goddess of war and creator deity.


Pichal Peri

From Urdu پچھل پيری, Persian پیچھل پری, meaning "reverse-footed".

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Urdu پچھل پيری

Persian پیچھل پری

(mythology) A creature from Pakistani/Arabian culture, who's said to be reverse-footed and demonic.


werewildcat

[…] Rozika, part vampire, part were-wildcat, who spits and yowls, […]

1966 April 14, “Community Senior Play To Be Presented Friday and Saturday”, in The Wylie News, page 7:

In Scotland there was a were-wildcat, in Russia a were-bear, and throughout Africa tales of were-lions or were-leopards abounded.

1981, Daniel Cohen, Everything You Need to Know About Monsters and Still Be Able to Get to Sleep, page 25:

Celican - werewildcats. Thought extinct in the Middle Ages, now almost _certainly_ wiped out by the Black Spiral Dancers

2000 November 22, I. Inayat, “The Splats: A Quick Guide”, in alt.games.whitewolf (Usenet):

(mythology) A person who is transformed or can transform into a wildcat or a wildcat-like human.


Tanit

Of Semitic origin, from Punic 𐤕𐤍𐤕 (tnt). Found in Ancient Greek as Θινιθ (Thinith), Θεννειθ (Thenneith).

Tanit, the moon goddess, her sacred veil, the zaïmph, and Salammbó are a poetic rendering of a threefold reality, similar to the notion of antiquity concerning the three faces of Diana (Thibaudet 138).

2001, Laurence M. Porter, editor, A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 320:

(mythology) A Punic and Phoenician goddess, the chief deity of Ancient Carthage alongside Baal-Hamon.


Cherufe

(mythology) A mythical man-eating creature in Mapuche mythology made of rock crystals and magma that cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.


werebird

(fantasy, mythology) A being that can change between human and bird form.


Dyeus

Learned borrowing from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws. Doublet of Jove and Zeus.

learned borrowing

Varuna may be related to Οὐρανός, and the inversion of the rôles of this deity and Dyeus as between India and Greece may indicate an ancient rival of the Sky-Father.

1926, V. Gordon Childe, The Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origins, page 81:

But these myths are on the whole of purely Greek origin, where the original Dyeus was associated with the Sun- and the Moon-myths.[…]Thus among the I.E.s we first have Dyeus, the god of the sky, who was the god of the sum total of the phenomena observed in the sky, the original conception, however powerful, being as yet too confused to have any definiteness about it.

1933, Panjabrao Deshmukh, The Origin and Development of Religion in Vedic Literature, Oxford University Press, pages 93, 126:

ARYAN RELIGION, the religion of the Aryans who settled India and Iran in pre-Zoroastrian times evolved around a supreme sky god known as Dyeus, who was the Allfather of both gods and men and the consort of the Mother Earth.

1985, Roger Pearson, Anthropological Glossary, →ISBN, page 16:

Four or five thousand years ago (around 2500 b.c.) the Aryans, or Indo-Europeans, settled in Iran and India. Their supreme god was Dyeus (thence Zeus, deus, deity, and other words). Dyeus was the shining God of Sky, the giver of rain, the vanquisher of enemies with thunderbolts.

1990, Sophy Burnham, A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our Lives, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 119:

“God” to the Aryans was male and took on many forms. Their major gods were connected to the sun, the most important were Agni, Indra, and Varunai. Their main god was Dyeus (Sky God).[…]Dyeus / The God of the Aryans.

2003, Constance Victoria Briggs, The Encyclopedia of God: An A-Z Guide to Thoughts, Ideas, and Beliefs about God, Hampton Roads Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 23, 68:

The PIE peoples had called their chief god by almost the same name: Dyeus. Like Zeus, Dyeus was a male god of sky and thunder. The Romans picked up on Dyeus too. The name “Jupiter” came from dyeu-pater, PIE for god-father. Later on, the Romans equated Jupiter with Zeus, a kind of double derivation from Dyeus.

2018, Michael Mayerfeld Bell, “Chapter 2: Nature Before Nature”, in City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right, Princeton University Press, published 2020, →ISBN, page 19:

(linguistics, anthropology, mythology) The daylight-sky god in Proto-Indo-European mythology.


earth-diver

(mythology) A common character in various traditional creation myths who is sent by a supreme being into the primal waters to find substance (often sand or mud) with which to build habitable land.


Minyan

From Latin Minyes (from Ancient Greek Μινύες (Minúes)) + -an.

(Greek mythology) A member of a race said to be autochthonous to the Aegean area.


Aeaean

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to the mythical island of Aeaea.


Fólkvangr

(Norse mythology) A meadow or field ruled over by the goddess Freyja, the afterlife for half of those people dying in combat, the other half going to Valhalla.


Andvaranaut

(Norse mythology) A magical ring useful in locating sources of gold.


Hengist

Their captains were two brothers, called Hengist and Horsa.

1905, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Our Island Story, page 37:

(mythology) One of a pair of brothers (the other being Horsa) said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their invasion of Britain in the 5th century, and to have been the first of the Jutish kings of Kent.


Querquetulanae

These Querquetulanae have an apparent, or barely possible, survival in the spirits called Querkeln in Bavaria.

2002, Charles Godfrey Leland, Etruscan Roman Remains and the Old Religion, page 106:

There weren't demons or vampires or fairies or shellycoats or Querquetulanae or any of that stuff.

2018, W. Stone Cotter, Saint Philomene's Infirmary for Magical Creatures:

They are partly associated with the Querquetulanae, the Roman nymphs of the oak grove.

2019, Maria Papachristos, Muses - Nymphs - Other Gods, page 55:

(Roman mythology) The nymphs of the oak grove.


alux

Borrowed from Yucatec Maya alux or via Spanish alux.

(mythology) A kind of sprite in the folklore of certain Maya peoples.


hulijing

(Chinese mythology) nine-tailed fox in Chinese mythology


yinglong

(Chinese mythology) a winged dragon and rain deity in Chinese mythology


Proserpine

(Roman mythology) Alternative form of Proserpina (“Roman goddess of the seasons and spring vegetation, daughter of Ceres and Jupiter; queen of the Underworld as wife of Pluto; equivalent to Greek Persephone and old Italic deity Libera”)


ban-hound

[T]hose dames were wont to make their appearance, arrayed in green, in the neighbourhood of Llyn Barfog, chiefly at eventide, accompanied by their kine and hounds, and that on quiet summer nights in particular, these ban-hounds were often to be heard in full cry pursuing their prey[.]

1853 July 14, Archaeologia Cambrensis, London: W. Pickering, page 203:

`Rash man!' she said; `like Actæon, thou hast had thy will; be careful lest, like Actæon, thou too dost perish miserably, torn to pieces by the ban-hounds of thine own passions.'

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

(mythology) A dog that fulfills or executes a curse (ban).


flaming sword

Acala
East Asian Buddhism
Flaming sword (mythology)
Khön clan of Sakya

He spake; and, to confirm his words, outflew
Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs
Of mighty Cherubim; the sudden blaze
Far round illumined Hell.

1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost:

The dexter figure has five stars round the verge of his head, and a flaming sword in the left hand. The sinister figure has the same flaming sword coupled with a branch of olive.

1861 March 2, Patonce, Notes and Queries (2), volume 11, number 270, London: Bell & Daldy, →ISSN, Queries, page 172:

A pair of scales are also used as a single symbol, excepting the flaming sword mentioned by your correspondent Mr. Vincent, to typify the Archangel Michael, in the same way that the white lily denotes the Archangel Gabriel. He is always represented by the ecclesiastical Byzantine painters as a young warrior of surpassing beauty, standing on the body of an old dead man, with wings expanded, and holding a flaming sword in his right, and a pair of scales in his left hand, in order to show that with the first he took his soul, and with the second he weighs the good and bad actions which the man had accomplished during his stay on earth.

1866 March 3, Rhodokanakis, “Saint Michael”, in Notes and Queries (3), volume 9, number 218, London: Bell & Daldy, →ISSN, pages 181–182:

(mythology) A metal sword wreathed in or emitting flames, appearing as a symbol or supernatural weapon in many mythologies.

short sword customarily made with a flaming

(mythology) A sword with a blade composed of supernaturally solidified flames, appearing as a symbol or weapon in many mythologies.


hill-troll

There is a hill on the lands of Skjelverod near Bingsted called Kirsten's-hill (Kirsten's Bjerg). In it there lived a Hill-troll whose name was Skynd, who had from time to time stolen no less than three wives from a man in the village of Englerup.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 198:

"What shall I do now? he said. As soon as the king had had time to consider, he told him that he must go the hill-troll, who had taken his grandfather's sword.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 101:

(mythology) A troll that lives in or under a hill.


uruisg

(European folklore, mythology) A brownie in Scottish folklore.


Apsyrtus

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Absyrtus


Absyrtus

(Greek mythology) A Colchian prince, the son of Aeëtes.


Bilskirnir

(Norse mythology) The hall of the god Thor in Asgard, containing 540 rooms.


Aaru

Learned borrowing from Egyptian jꜣrw (“reeds”) as rendered in the outdated 19th-century transcription scheme developed by Karl Richard Lepsius (ȧaru), part of the complete term sḫt-jꜣrw (literally “field of reeds”).

lbor

(Egyptian mythology) In ancient Egyptian mythology, the heavenly paradise where Osiris rules, described as boundless reed fields like those of the Nile Delta.


Aeacus

(Greek mythology) A king of the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf, one of the three judges in Hades.


Antilochus

From Ancient Greek Ἀντίλοχος (Antílokhos).

(Greek mythology) A prince of Pylos and one of the Achaeans in the Trojan War.


Velchanos

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ϝελχάνος (Welkhános). Possibly cognate with Chania on Crete.

(Greek mythology) A god of the ancient Minoans, originally associated with vegetation but later conflated with Zeus.


Iphimedeia

From Ancient Greek Ἰφιμέδεια (Iphimédeia).

(Greek mythology) A Thessalian princess, the daughter of Triopas of Thessaly (a son of Poseidon and Canace).


Firbolg

(Irish mythology) The fourth group of people to settle in Ireland, descended from the Muintir Nemid, an earlier group who abandoned Ireland and went to different parts of Europe.


Melqart

From Phoenician 𐤌𐤋𐤒𐤓𐤕 (mlqrt), probably from 𐤌𐤋𐤊 (mlk, “king”) + 𐤒𐤓𐤕 (qrt, “city”) (compare Hebrew קרת (qeret)), literally meaning "king of the city".

(mythology) The Phoenician god of the city of Tyre


Dahut

(mythology) The daughter of Gradlon, king of the city of Ys.


Poseidonia

From Latin Poseidonia, from Ancient Greek Ποσειδωνία (Poseidōnía); or directly from Greek Ποσειδωνία (Poseidonía). From Ποσειδῶν (Poseidôn) + -ία (-ía). Equivalent to Poseidon + -ia.

(Greek mythology) Synonym of Athens, from the myth The Gift of Athena about the origin of Athens.


Hlidhskjalf

(Norse mythology) Odin's cloud-throne above Asgard.


Lityerses

From Ancient Greek Λιτυέρσης (Lituérsēs).

(Greek mythology) An illegitimate son of Midas (or of Comis) and Demeter, who challenged people to harvesting contests and beheaded those he beat, putting the rest of their bodies in the sheaves. Heracles won the contest and killed him.


Pygmalion

From Ancient Greek Πυγμαλίων (Pugmalíōn), from Phoenician 𐤐𐤏𐤌𐤉𐤕𐤍 (pʿmytn /puġ‘mayaton/), from Phoenician 𐤐𐤌𐤉𐤉𐤕𐤍 (pmyytn /pumayyaton/, “Pumay has given”), from Phoenician 𐤐𐤌𐤉 (pmy, “Pumay”) + Phoenician 𐤉𐤕𐤍 (ytn /yaton/, “to give”).

der

(Greek mythology) A legendary sculptor who was granted the wish of having life given to a sculpture of his which he fell deeply in love with.


Camaxtli

(mythology) Synonym of Mixcoatl (“Mesoamerican god of the hunt”)


Mixcoatl

(mythology) The god of the hunt, identified with the Milky Way, stars, and heavens, in several Mesoamerican cultures.


Campe

(Greek mythology) A female monster, the guard in Tartarus of the Cyclopes and Hundred-Handers, whom Cronus, ruler of the Titans, had imprisoned there.


Skinfaxi

Coordinate term: Hrimfaxi

(Norse mythology) The horse ridden by Dagr (day).


Hrimfaxi

Coordinate term: Skinfaxi

(Norse mythology) The horse ridden by Nótt (night).


Elatha

(Irish mythology) A king of the Fomorians and the father of Bres by Ériu of the Tuatha Dé Danann, as well as Delbaeth, Ogma, Elloth (grandfather of Manannán mac Lir), and the Dagda by an unnamed mother.


Eteoclus

(Greek mythology) The son of Iphis, who participated in the war on Thebes.


Glitnir

(Norse mythology) The hall of Forseti, the Norse god of law and justice, and the seat of justice amongst gods and men.


Phthonus

From Ancient Greek Φθόνος (Phthónos, “Phthonos, god of envy and jealousy”), from φθόνος (phthónos, “envy, jealousy”).

bor

Coordinate term: Invidia

(Greek mythology) The god of jealousy and envy.


Polymnestor

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Polymestor


Polymestor

From Ancient Greek Πολυμήστωρ (Polumḗstōr).

(Greek mythology) A king of Thrace whose wife was Ilione, the eldest daughter of King Priam.


Jinnestan

Jinnestan was the common appellation of the whole of this ideal region.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 28:

(mythology) The mythical realm of the jinn.


Nephele

(Greek mythology) A cloud nymph who figured prominently in the story of Phrixus and Helle.


Tritoness

(Greek mythology) A female spirit of the sea.


Heroic Age

(mythology) One of the five ages of man, the period at which semidivine and human heroes are purported to have lived, between the arrival of the Greeks to Thessaly and the Greek return from Troy.


Idomenean

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Idomeneus.


Aerope

(Greek mythology) The daughter of Catreus, king of Crete, and sister to Clymene, Apemosyne and Althaemenes. Catreus gave her to Nauplius, to be drowned or sold abroad, but Nauplius spared her.

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Cepheus of Arcadia, who was king of Tegea.


Polynoe

From Ancient Greek Πουλυνόη (Poulunóē, literally “giver of reason; richness of mind, thoughtful”).


Porrima

(Roman mythology) The goddess Antevorta.


Academus

(Greek mythology) An Athenian hero who saved Athens by preventing an invasion by Castor and Pollux.


Britomartis

From Ancient Greek Βριτόμαρτις (Britómartis).

(Greek mythology) A Greek goddess of mountains and hunting, primarily worshipped on the island of Crete.


Adephagia

From Ancient Greek Ἀδηφαγία (Adēphagía).

(Greek mythology) The goddess and personification of gluttony.


Himeros

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἵμερος (Hímeros), ἵμερος (hímeros, “yearning, desire”).

1999, Janet Lloyd (translator), Claude Calame, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece, [1992, I Greci e l'eros], Princeton University Press, pages 31-32,
A late-fifth-century hydria represents Himeros as a young boy who is present at the judgment of Paris: while Eros concentrates on winning over the young shepherd, Himeros and Pothos flank Aphrodite, indicating that this is the goddess upon whom his choice will fall. And a famous black-figure plaque dating from as early as dating from as early as the mid-sixth century shows Aphrodite holding in her arms two wingless children named, respectively, Himeros and Pothos.

While both love gods Eros and Himeros are regularly associated with Aphrodite, and they often appear together or separately in overtly erotic contexts, it is a bit tricky to differentiate between these two figures with precision.

2010, Monica S. Cyrino, Aphrodite, page 45:

The Greeks observed that Himeros often mingled with other goddesses, namely the Graces and the Hours and with Persuasion (Peitho) and Eros, all in the company of Aphrodite. How strange it is that in our times, Himeros often is found in the company of boredom, weariness and emptiness, since to experience desire and yearning is regarded as being deprived! Even though fulfillment is yet to come, Himeros is neither bored nor deprived.

2010, Betty Mallett Smith, The Greek Dialogues, Xlibris, page 460:

(Greek mythology) The Greek god of uncontrollable desire, often depicted as a winged child attendant to Aphrodite.


Pheme

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Φήμη (Phḗmē).

lbor

(Greek mythology) The personification of fame and renown, her favour being notability, her wrath being scandalous rumours.


Virbius

(Greek mythology) The resurrected Hippolytus of Athens, who (according to some accounts) became the king of the Aricians and ruled from inside the shrine of Diana.


Volcanus

(Roman mythology) Synonym of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalwork.


Erisian

en-adj

Erisian (comparative more Erisian, superlative most Erisian)

more Erisian (comparative)
most Erisian (superlative)

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Eris.


Ops

Learned borrowing from Latin Ops, from Latin ops (“resources, wealth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-(i)-, *h₃op-(i)- (“force, ability”), from *h₃ep- base

(Roman mythology) The goddess of earth and fertility. Equivalent to the Greek Rhea, Ops was the sister-wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter. After Saturn learned of a prophecy that his children by Ops would overthrow him, he ate each of them just after they were born; however, Ops saved Jupiter by feeding Saturn a stone instead.


Sterquilinus

(Roman mythology) A Roman god of odor and manure.


Gleipnir

(Norse mythology) The binding that holds Fenrir, a chain made of six impossible objects forged together by the dwarves.


Huveane

(mythology) A trickster god and a creator god in Pedi and Venda mythologies.


Anaxarete

/əˌnæksəˈɹɛti/

From Ancient Greek Ἀναξαρέτη (Anaxarétē).

(Greek mythology) a rich and beautiful maiden of Cyprus, who, disdaining the love of Iphis, was changed to stone.


Agenor

/əˈd͡ʒiːnɔː/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀγήνωρ (Agḗnōr).

bor+

(Greek mythology) King of Phoenicia, father of Cadmus and Europa, and ancestor of Dido.


Athamas

(Greek mythology) A Boeotian king, father of Phrixus and Helle by his first wife Nephele, whom he deserted for Ino.


Isonade

/ˌiːsəʊˈnɑːdeɪ/

Transliteration of Japanese 磯撫で (いそなで, Isonade, literally “shore stroker”).

translit

With more than 70% of the Earth's surface submerged beneath water, it comes as no surprise that throughout history mankind has been fascinated with the seas and oceans. In earlier years this fascination manifested itself in the form of fear and mystery; […] in Japanese stories, fierce winds would blow whenever Isonade, a shark-like sea monster, appeared.

2009 June, Marios Christou, “Introduction”, in Fully Nonlinear Computations of Waves and Wave-structure Interaction (unpublished Ph.D. thesis), London: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, →DOI, →OCLC, page 25:

Another Japanese giant fish is Isonade, a sharklike sea monster that causes strong winds and also capsizes boats or catches unwary fishermen with the hooks on its huge tail.

2011, Gene Helfman, Bruce Collette, “Fishes in Stories and Literature”, in Fishes: The Animal Answer Guide, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 131:

Nipponese sailors traveling along the western coast of Japan are warned to keep a weather eye open for the Isonade, akin in form to a huge shark with hook-like barbs on its tail. Much as the giant namazu catfish of Japanese legend is associated with earthquakes, the movements of the gigantic Isonade are said to be the source of sudden changes in sea currents and winds from the north.

2014 summer, Jonathan Maniscalco, “Seven Entries from The New Book of Imaginary Beings”, in Jonathan Maniscalco, Frances Gossen, editors, Clarion, number 17, Boston, Mass.: The Pen & Anvil Press; Boston University Literary Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-16, section iii (The Isonade), page 107:

(Japanese mythology) A mythological monster that resembles an enormous shark, said to live off the coast of western Japan.

إيسونادي

mythological monster that resembles an enormous shark said to live off the coast of western Japan


Psychean

(mythology) Of or relating to the Greek god Psyche.


Anticlia

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Anticlea


Anticlea

From Ancient Greek Ἀντίκλεια (Antíkleia, literally “without fame”).

bor

(Greek mythology) A queen of Ithaca, the wife of King Laërtes.


Itylos

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Itylus


Phaethontic

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Phaëthon.


Phaethusa

From Ancient Greek Φαέθουσα (Phaéthousa, literally “radiance”).

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Helios and Neaera, the personification of the brilliant, blinding rays of the sun. With her sister, Lampetia, she guarded the cattle of Thrinacia.


Cocamama

(mythology) The Incan goddess of the coca plant.


Codrus

(Greek mythology) The last of the semi-mythical kings of Athens (r. ca 1089–1068 BC), an ancient exemplar of patriotism and self-sacrifice.


Corineus

(mythology) A prodigious warrior and the eponymous founder of Cornwall in British legend.


Cydippe

The daughter of the nymph Hegetoria and Ochimus, king of Rhodes.

An Athenian girl who was obliged to marry Acontius.


Tailltiu

(Irish mythology) Alternative form of Tailtiu


Arimasp

(mythology) A member of a legendary one-eyed people of Scythia.


Antevorta

(Roman mythology) An ancient Roman goddess of the future.


Atahensic

(mythology) An Iroquois sky goddess associated with marriage, childbirth, and feminine affairs in general.


footholder

One particularly difficult figure is the king's footholder, the problems with which have already been clearly delineated by McKenna.

2018, Robin Chapman Stacey, Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales, page 146:

After the rape of his “footholder,” the king tries to find another maiden who could be used for this purpose.

Antón Bousquet, The World of the Gauls: Foundation(s) of a Celtic Philosophy (page 253)

(mythology) In Welsh mythology, a virgin maiden tasked with holding a warrior's feet in her lap.


Hesione

(Greek mythology) Any of various women in Greek mythology, especially the Trojan princess who was the daughter of King Laomedon.


Medjed

Borrowed from Egyptian mḏd (“Medjed”, literally “the true-striking”).

bor+

(Egyptian mythology) A minor god mentioned in the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.


Mount of Temptation

Monastery of the Temptation
Mount of Temptation

(Christianity mythology) The supposed location of the Temptation of Christ in the early 1st century.


maelid

(Greek mythology) The nymph associated with an apple tree.


Thersitean

en-adj

Thersitean (comparative more Thersitean, superlative most Thersitean)

more Thersitean (comparative)
most Thersitean (superlative)

It is instructive to compare the Thersitean critique of communal identity with the narratives of an emergent English nationalism.

2005, Simon Barker, Shakespeare's Problem Plays:

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Thersites, a Greek soldier during the Trojan War who was punished for his outspoken criticism of Agamemnon.


Islands of the Blessed

Islands of the Blest
Islands of the Blest


Camoenae

(Roman mythology) Alternative form of Camenae


Camenae

(Roman mythology) A group of prophetic goddesses associated with childbirth, wells, and fountains.


Irai Leima

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of water, aquatic life, diseases and illnesses.


Imoinu

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯏꯃꯣꯏꯅꯨ (ʼimoʼinoo).

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(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of family, fireplace, hearth, household, kitchen, peace, prosperity and wealth.


Khamnung Kikoi Louonbi

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯈꯝꯅꯨꯡ ꯀꯤꯀꯣꯢ ꯂꯧꯑꯣꯟꯕꯤ (khamnoong keekoi louʼonbee).

ꯈꯝꯅꯨꯡ ꯀꯤꯀꯣꯢ ꯂꯧꯑꯣꯟꯕꯤ

(Meitei mythology) An Ancient Meitei goddess of death who carries off the souls of individuals to the underworld.


Khuman Pokpa

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯈꯨꯃꯟ ꯄꯣꯛꯄ (khooman pokpa).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of the sunset and the night time. He is also the ancestral God of the Khuman clan.


Khunu Leima

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯈꯨꯅꯨꯔꯩꯃ (khoonooreima).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of pigeons and doves.


Kounu

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei guardian goddess of the northern direction, the snows of the far north, giver of good rainfall, and a consort of God Koupalu.


Laikhurembi

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯂꯥꯏꯈꯨꯔꯦꯝꯕꯤ (laaʼikhoorembee).

(Meitei mythology) An Ancient Meitei goddess of argument, justice, good counsel, divine law, order, retribution and secrecy; the chief queen of the Khamnung underworld and the chief consort of the god Thongalen.


Salailen

(Meitei mythology) An ancient Meitei god of the sky and heaven. He is the king of all gods.


Lok Ningthou

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of brooks, gorges, ravines, rills, rivulets, runnels and streams, the guardian of the southern direction and the son of God Wangpulen.


Lainaotabi

(Meitei mythology) An Ancient Meitei goddess of charm, magic, sorcery, spell, weaving and witchcraft and a minor consort of the god Thongalen, and later remarried to Poireiton.


Koupalu

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯀꯧꯕꯔꯨ (koubaroo).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei tutelary guardian god of the northwestern direction. He is the mythological founder of human civilization.


Haoreima

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯍꯥꯎꯔꯩꯃ (haaureima).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of diseases, illnesses, souls and spirits.


Koujeng Leima

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯀꯧꯖꯦꯡ ꯂꯩꯃ (koujeng leima).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of tribal origin and a minor consort of God Koupalu.


Marjing

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯃꯥꯔꯖꯤꯡ (maarajeeng).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of polo, hockey, horse, sports and war. He is the guardian of the northeast direction.


Nungthel Leima

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of the first citizen. She is the adopted daughter of God Koupalu and Goddess Kounu. She is the consort of God Loyalakpa.


Loyalakpa

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯂꯣꯌꯥꯔꯥꯛꯄ (loyaaraakpa).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei guardian god of the western direction. He is an adopted son of God Koupalu and Goddess Kounu.


Korouhanba

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯀꯣꯔꯧꯍꯟꯕ (korouhanba).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of the sun, sky and heaven.


Nongshaba

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯅꯣꯡꯁꯥꯕ (nongsaaba).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei dragon lion god of protection.


Panthoibi

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯄꯥꯟꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ (paanthoʼibee).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of civilization, courage, fertility, handicraft, love, victory, warfare and wisdom. She is the consort of God Nongpok Ningthou.


Khoriphaba

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯈꯣꯔꯤꯐꯥꯕ (khoreephaaba).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of adventure, sports, wrestling and polo matches. He is the son of Salailen and Konthoujam Tampha Lairembi.


Ngaleima

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯉꯥꯔꯩꯃ (ngaareima).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of fish and aquatic life.


Mongba Hanba

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯃꯣꯡꯕ ꯍꯟꯕ (mongba hanba).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei sylvan deity.


Thongalen

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯊꯣꯉꯥꯂꯦꯟ (thongaalen).

(Meitei mythology) An Ancient Meitei god of the dead and the king of the Khamnung underworld.


Nongthang Leima

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯅꯣꯡꯊꯥꯡ ꯂꯩꯃ (nongthaang leima).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of seduction, thunder and lightning.


Wangpulen

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯋꯥꯡꯄꯨꯂꯦꯟ (waangpoolen).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of water, rain, flood, disease and sickness, the guardian of the southeast direction.


Nongpok Ningthou

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯅꯣꯡꯄꯣꯛ ꯅꯤꯡꯊꯧ (nongpok neengthou).

ꯅꯣꯡꯄꯣꯛ ꯅꯤꯡꯊꯧ

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei guardian god of the eastern direction. He is the consort of Goddess Panthoibi.


Phouoibi

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of agriculture, crops, fertility, grains, harvesting, paddy, rice and wealth. She is the consort of God Phou Ningthou.


Pakhangba

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei serpentine dragon god of protection of the universe.


Nganu Leima

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯉꯥꯅꯨ ꯂꯩꯃ (ngaanoo leima).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of ducks and waterfowl.


Panam Ningthou

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯄꯅꯝ ꯅꯤꯡꯊꯧ (panam neengthou).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei protector god of crops (paddy) from hailstorm and thunder. He is the igniter of the first fire.


Shapi Leima

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei goddess and mistress of all the rodents. She is a daughter of God Salailen.


Khamlangba

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯈꯝꯂꯥꯡꯕ (khamlaangba).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of iron, mining, metallurgy, steel manufacturing, hunting and war.


Phou Ningthou

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯐꯧ ꯅꯤꯪꯊꯧ (phou neengthou).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of agriculture, crops, fertility, grains, harvesting, paddy and rice. He is the consort of Goddess Phouoibi.


Yumjao Leima

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess of house, household, royalty, rule and power. She is the all time reigning mythological queen mother.


Thumleima

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯊꯨꯝꯂꯩꯃ (thoomleima).

(Meitei mythology) An ancient Meitei goddess of salt and salt brines. She is a daughter of the god Salailen.


Taoroinai

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯇꯥꯎꯔꯣꯢꯅꯥꯢ (taauroinaai).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei serpentine dragon god of the moon.


Thangching

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯊꯥꯡꯖꯤꯡ (thaangjeeng).

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei protector and guardian god of the southwestern direction. He is the progenitor of the Moirang clan.


Pisatao

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯄꯤꯁꯥꯇꯥꯎ (peesaataau), ꯄꯤ (pee, “to give”) + ꯁꯥ (saa, “to create, make”) + ꯇꯥꯎ (taau, “male friend”).

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(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei God of architecture, artisans, forge, handicrafts, metallurgy and skills.


Pureiromba

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯄꯨꯔꯩꯔꯣꯝꯕ (pooreiromba).

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(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei giver god of rain and agricultural prosperity.


Sanamahi

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯁꯅꯥꯃꯍꯤ (sanaamahee). Meitei word Sana is a portmanteau of Salailen and "Nawa" ("child" in Meitei), thereby meaning "Salailen's child (Nawa)". Sanamahi is a combination of "Sana" and "Mahi" ("liquid" in Meitei), thereby meaning "child (Nawa) developed by the liquid (Mahi) of Salailen".

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei supreme guardian god of mankind and human household. He is the son of God Salailen.


Thongak Lairembi

Borrowed from Manipuri ꯊꯣꯡꯉꯥꯛ ꯂꯥꯢꯔꯦꯝꯕꯤ (thongngaak laairembee).

ꯊꯣꯡꯉꯥꯛ ꯂꯥꯢꯔꯦꯝꯕꯤ

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei gatekeeper goddess of the entrance gate to the underworld kingdom. She is the consort of God Thongalen.


Konthoujam Tampha Lairembi

(Meitei mythology) Ancient Meitei Goddess Queen of Heaven. She is a consort of Salailen and the mother of Khoriphaba.


Bundahishn

Borrowed from Avestan 𐬠𐬎𐬥𐬛𐬀𐬵𐬌𐬱𐬥𐬍𐬵 (bundahišnīh, literally “primal creation”), being a word from the first sentence of the younger (and longer) of the two recensions of the work.

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The Bundahishn chapter is here given in outline, renderings from West's translation being sometimes adopted verbatim.

1896, A. V. Williams Jackson, “The Ancient Persian Doctrine of A Future Life”, in William Rainey Harper, Ernest DeWitt Burton, Shailer Mathews, editors, The Biblical World, New Series: Volume 8, University of Chicago Press, page 162:

1997 [Routledge], Alan Williams, 2: Later Zoroastrianism, Brian Carr, Indira Mahalingam (editors), Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, 2005, Taylor & Francis e-Library, page 23,
The Bundahishn is concerned with, among other things, the themes of the creation of the world, the order of things, and the eschatological destiny of both the individual soul and the world at large.

According to Bundahishn, the prophet had exclaimed that with the disintegration of the body and the destruction of matter, the reconstruction of the body would not be possible.

2003, Farhang Mehr, The Zoroastrian Tradition, Mazda Publishers, page 143:

(religion, Zoroastrianism, mythology) An encyclopaedic collection of Zoroastrian cosmogony and cosmology; especially, the longer of the two recessions of the work.


Iacchic

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Iacchus.


Iacchos

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Iacchus


Carmentae

(Roman mythology) The goddesses Antevorta and Postverta.


Postvorta

(Roman mythology) Alternative form of Postverta


Postverta

(Roman mythology) An ancient Roman goddess of the past, sister of Antevorta.


Argestes

(Roman mythology) A wind from the west-northwest (according to Pliny the Elder) or west-southwest (according to Vitruvius).


Chang'e

/t͡ʃɒŋ.(ʔ)ʌ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 嫦娥 (Cháng'é).

4. Don't point at the moon
In general, pointing with the index finger at the moon is disrespectful to the moon goddess Chang'e and she will retaliate by cutting your ear clean off, or at least cut it slightly. In addition, during the Qixi Festival, it is considered even worse to point at the moon because, in addition to the original punishment from Chang'e, it may cause one's lover to have a change of heart.

2022 August 4, Keoni Everington, “5 taboos to dodge on Qixi Festival in Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2022-08-04, Culture:

(Chinese mythology) The Chinese goddess of the moon.


Tornit

(mythology) In Inuit mythology, a member of a race of barbarian magicians.


Vingólf

(Norse mythology) The hall of the goddesses, where righteous men and those slain in battle go after death.


Hyang

(mythology) a representation of the Supreme Being in ancient Indonesian (Balinese, Javanese, Osing, Tengger, Sundanese) mythology, native to Java and Bali islands.


Ixionian

en-adj

Ixionian (comparative more Ixionian, superlative most Ixionian)

more Ixionian (comparative)
most Ixionian (superlative)

the Ixionian wheel

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Ixion.


lotus-eater

Calque of Ancient Greek Λωτοφάγος (Lōtophágos), described in the epic poem the Odyssey, Book IX.

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Men of Ithaca, this is meeter, / In the hollow rosy vale to tarry, / Like a dreamy Lotos-eater, a delirious Lotos-eater!

1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 116:

(Greek mythology) A member of the legendary people living on an island dominated by the lotus tree, who have forgotten their homes due to the fruits' narcotic and stupefying effect.

giolla na leisce

someone with an easy life who does not worry about much


Curete

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κουρῆτες (Kourêtes).

(Greek mythology) One of a legendary tribe of people who took part in the quarrel over the Calydonian boar, identified in antiquity as either Aetolians or Acarnanians.


Lyonesse

(mythology) A kingdom mentioned in Arthurian legend, consisting of a long strand of land stretching from Land's End at the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England to what is now the Isles of Scilly in the Celtic Sea portion of the Atlantic Ocean. It was considered lost after being swallowed by the ocean in a single night.


Gungnir

Learned borrowing from Old Norse Gungnir (“the swaying one”).

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(Norse mythology and paganism) The spear of the Norse god Odin, which is believed to never miss its target.


fear gortha

From Irish [Term?] (literally “man of hunger/famine”).

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(Irish mythology) A phantom of hunger, resembling an emaciated man.


Khepri

(Egyptian mythology) A scarab-faced god who represents the rising or morning sun.


Khepera

Khepera eating his own seed is a model of Romantic creativity, where the self is isolated and sexually dual.

1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 41:

(Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Khepri


Lir

(Irish mythology) A personification of the sea in Irish mythology.


ichthyocentaur

From Ancient Greek ἰχθυοκένταυρος (ikhthuokéntauros).

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ἰχθυοκένταυρος

(Greek mythology) A centaurian sea being with the upper body of a human, the lower anterior half and forelegs of a horse, and the tailed half of a fish.


rivermaiden

(mythology, fantasy) A nymph or female spirit associated with a river.


Askr

(Norse mythology) Alternative form of Ask (“the first male human in the Edda”)


werebat

(fantasy, mythology) A shapeshifter who can change between bat and human form.


Aeacid

(Greek mythology) A descendant of King Aeacus.


Höðr

(Norse mythology) The blind son of the Norse gods Odin and Frigg, whom Loki tricked into shooting Baldur with a mistletoe arrow.


Panchaia

(Greek mythology) An island said to be the home of a utopian multiethnic society.


Rainbow Serpent

Australian Aboriginal
Australian Aboriginal

(mythology) An Australian Aboriginal deity, sometimes regarded as a creator god, sometimes associated with water, and often (though not always) described as being a snake.


tarand

(mythology) A legendary reindeer/moose-like creature with chameleon properties.


Hilaria

(mythology) A legendary saint, daughter of the Roman emperor Zeno, who disguised herself as a man to become a monk and later healed her sister of an ailment.


Persephassa

From Ancient Greek Περσεφάσσα (Persephássa).

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Persephone


Persephatta

From Ancient Greek Περσεφάττα (Persephátta).


Philoctetean

en-adj

Philoctetean (comparative more Philoctetean, superlative most Philoctetean)

more Philoctetean (comparative)
most Philoctetean (superlative)

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Philoctetes (Ancient Greek: Φιλοκτήτης), a famed archer who participated in the Trojan War.


Arethuse

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Arethusa


Minyas

(Greek mythology) The founder of Orchomenus, Boeotia, and ancestor of the Minyans.


Medusan

Medusan (comparative more Medusan, superlative most Medusan)

more Medusan (comparative)
most Medusan (superlative)

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Medusa.


Tantalian

Tantalian (comparative more Tantalian, superlative most Tantalian)

more Tantalian (comparative)
most Tantalian (superlative)


Tantalean

Tantalean (comparative more Tantalean, superlative most Tantalean)

more Tantalean (comparative)
most Tantalean (superlative)

(mythology) Alternative form of Tantalian


Telephus

From Ancient Greek Τήλεφος (Tḗlephos, literally “far-shining”).

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(Greek mythology) The son of Heracles and Auge; he was adopted by Teuthras, the king of Mysia, in Asia Minor, whom he succeeded as king, and was both wounded and later healed by Achilles.


Thamyras

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Thamyris


Thamyris

(Greek mythology) A Thracian singer who challenged the Nine Muses to a competition and lost.


Tritonia

(Greek mythology) An epithet of the goddess Athena.


Tritogeneia

(Greek mythology) An epithet of the goddess Athena, of uncertain meaning, but possibly "Triton-born", "triple-born", or "third-born".


akshauhini

Borrowed from Sanskrit अक्षौहिणी (akṣauhiṇī).

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(Hinduism, mythology) an army consisting of ten anikinis, or 21,870 elephants, 21,870 chariots, 65,610 horses, and 109,350 foot


Zethus

(Greek mythology) The husband of the nymph Thebe


Hœnir

The Æsir send in exchange Hœnir, an obscure figure in Old Norse mythology, and perhaps understandably so, since the Vanir soon discover that Hœnir, though extremely good-looking, is like a ventriloquist's dummy.

2008, Heather O'Donoghue, From Asgard to Valhalla, Bloomsbury Publishing, unnumbered page:

2014, Dagulf Loptson, Playing With Fire, Lulu, EPUB Edition, unnumbered page,
Unfortunately, little information remains about the Æsir god Hœnir. In Gylfaginning, Snorri tells us that Hœnir was given as a hostage to the Vanir in exchange for Njörðr in a pledge of truce.

Rather curiously, it is Hœnir who is said to have imbued the lifeless wood with óðr ('frenzy', 'passion'), rather than Odin, who derives his own name from the quality.

2022, Andrew Orchard, Dictionary of Norse Myth & Legend, Hachette, unnumbered page:

(Norse mythology) A Norse Æsir god, who, along with Odin and Lodur, created the first humans.